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MLA NEWS DIGEST  12 JANUARY 2022

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Participate in the 2023 MLA Convention

Thanks to everyone who attended the 2022 MLA convention! Session recordings will be available within a week. It's not too early to plan for MLA 2023, taking place in San Francisco. The 2023 presidential theme is Working Conditions. Calls for papers can be posted through 28 February.

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Get the Winter Newsletter Online 

MLA members can access the winter MLA Newsletter for Barbara Fuchs’s column on multilingualism at the MLA, a look at the association’s expanded professional-development programming, guidance from MLA editors on using the singular they, and more.

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Nominate Members for Committees

Members who would like to suggest themselves or other members for appointment to the MLA’s standing committees may do so online through 4 February. Learn more about committee vacancies and what information suggestions should include

MLA Bibliography Fellowships

Don't miss the chance to be a fellow with the MLA International Bibliography! Sharpen your research skills while providing an important service. Learn more and apply by 15 March.

MLA Group Memberships for Grad Students

Support graduate students' professional development by sponsoring their MLA membership. Departments can save up to 20% when purchasing membership for a group. 

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Membership Discounts

MLA members are entitled to significant discounts on books from our partner publishers. Receive a 30% discount on all books from Cambridge University Press and a 35% discount on higher education books from Johns Hopkins University Press. 

CALLS

Submissions: Special issue on the short fiction of Edward P. Jones, due 31 Jan.

Papers: Conference on women and comedy 1890–1950, due 31 Jan.

Papers: Louisiana State University Graduate History Conference, due 4 Feb.

Submissions: Special issue of Beyond the Margins, due 14 Feb.

Papers: Living in Pandemonium conference, due 18 Feb.

Submissions: Special issue of Journal of Feminist Scholarship, due 1 Mar.

Submissions: Special issue of Culture and Dialoguedue 1 Mar.

Submissions: Special issue of Yearbook of Transnational History, due 31 Mar.

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MEMBER NEWS

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Keen Appointed Pres. of Scripps College

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Blum Appears on Jeopardy!

Lisa Vollendorf

Vollendorf Named Pres. of Empire State

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